Love's Unending Legacy is the fifth film in the Love Comes Softly series. This edition is set three years after the last installment (Love’s Abiding Joy) Missie LaHaye is now a widow, having lost her husband Willie in the line of duty as sheriff of Tettsford Junction. Missie finds running their family ranch on her own, a bit overwhelming, even after giving up her position as the town schoolteacher, so she turns the homestead over to her son Jeff and his new bride, and they take joint control with her brothers Aaron and Arnie.

Missie and Mattie move back to live with her parents Clark and Marty Davis. Missie realizes that she needs to provide a home for Mattie gains a new teaching job and a new home, yet Missie has lost faith in herself, until she has the opportunity to adopt a homeless orphan, Belinda Marshall. In all of this God is honored, and He is praised through the lives of these families; and the restorative works.

This is another good entry, for this series of movies where at the heart you are encouraged by the Christian-principled characters, who are able in the end to see the big picture of God’s will for their lives. As with the first four films of the Love Comes Softly series, the cinematography is beautiful; the script is caring and loving; the acting is sharp with heartfelt emotions. However, unlike the Love’s Abiding Joy (film number four) Legacy earned multiple awards.  Victor Browne portraying Sheriff Zack Tyler, Erin Cottrell as Missie LaHaye and Dale Midkiff won a Camie (Character and Morality in Entertainment) Award each for their roles. Brian Gordon took home a Camie for producer, another Camie went to Mark Griffiths as director and Pamela Wallace won a Camie for writing. In addition, Braeden Lemasters and Holliston Coleman each was nominated for a Young Artist Award for acting in a TV Movie.

Don’t miss out on this special movie; again you can find this DVD alone or in numerous boxed sets.